I don't think it matters if you are first or twelfth choice, so long as the terms are right for both parties.
It does seem that lots of managers think that they can ask clubs for whatever they want and it will be agreed. Naughty Nuno thought he could insist that he could bring all the staff...
I suspect that he will stay because no club has actually asked permission to talk to him. I would only worry if that had been made and agreed, anything more is the press needing to write 1000 word stories and bookies desperate for punters to lose money.